Word: habited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rigid Diet. In Chicago, the Tribune syndicate's health columnist told a worried reader that her habit of eating three boxes of laundry starch a week would do her no harm, but asked her to let him know if it stiffened her stomach...
...columns which have been carefully edited with the wisdom of hindsight. Some still unedited Iddon items: ¶"The electric chair is working overtime and Sing Sing's Death Row is jammed as detectives round up gun-happy youths hepped up with dope." ¶"The sleeping-pill habit is getting more widespread [in Hollywood]. Actors and actresses take them to get a few hours' rest and then swallow benzedrine in the morning to do their work." ¶"The simple truth about the Negro in America . . . is that he is treated as subhuman . . . [Negroes] live worse than the white...
Dressed in rough, blue denim work clothes, the Benedictine nuns of St. Louis du Temple were busy one day last week plastering the walls of their new convent at Limon, near Paris. As they worked, a nun in full habit picked her way through the chaos of scaffolding, pipes and plaster, and the others turned to look at her with sharp interest. Even the Mère Abbesse showed special respect. The abbess pointed to the outline of a Gothic window above a freshly mortared chapel wall: "And there, Mère Geneviève, we shall need three large...
...which did not please me, an aspect rough and terrible. He was wearing a strange, black costume-austere, and with lines that recalled an earlier, more primitive age-a pointed hood, a belt of leather. What end was he seeking? I wondered. The austere grandeur of his habit, of that belt which hung from his waist, somehow entangled my heart in a way that was incurable." In 1917 she was admitted to the Benedictines of the Rue Monsieur...
When the Federal Government has taken over railroads or coal mines to avert strikes, it has often handed out pay raises which the seized companies had previously refused to give. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court whacked down on the Government's habit of handing out other people's money. In a precedent-setting decision, the court held that the Government, not the company, must pay the losses resulting from added wage costs, and thereby laid the Government open to suits for millions of dollars in claims...